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N.M. jail guard hospitalized with stab wounds

LAS CRUCES — A New Mexico jail guard who was stabbed by a detainee was hospitalized in El Paso and sheriff ’s deputies were investigating, a county official said.

The name and condition of the officer were not made public following the late Thursday incident during medication distribution in a medium custody unit at the Doña Ana County Detention Center.

The guard was being treated at University Medical Center in El Paso, county spokeswoman Luce Rubio said in a statement.

The detainee was identified as a 28-year-old Las Cruces man who was arrested in July 2020 in Los Lunas and was being held without bond awaiting trial on charges related to a shooting at a house.

It was not clear what additional charges he could face in the alleged attack.

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